Tag: 2010

My favorite feature of VS2010 so far is the excellent extension support, which allows me to add in my favorite plugins from the Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery.

Since there are thousands of plugins in the gallery right now, I thought it might be useful to share the most useful extensions I’ve found (and currently use) so far:

In alphabetical order…

AnkhSVNAnkhSVN is a Subversion Source Control Provider for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010.AnkhSVN provides source code management support to all project types supported by Visual Studio and allows you to perform the most common version control operations directly from inside the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.
The Pending Changes dashboard gives you a unique insight in your development process and provides easy access to the source code and issue management features. The deep source code control (SCC) integration allows you to focus on developing, while AnkhSVN keeps track of all your changes and provides you the tools to effectively handle your specific needs.

Code4BlogCode4Blog is a Visual Studio 2010 extension that allows to convert any code supported by Visual Studio IDE to HTML format with the same structure and colors. Main purpose of this extension is to prepare a code snippet to be published in rich documents, for example in blog posts, Microsoft Word documents or Help files. Some additional styling could be applied: max width and height of the code block, custom background (per code line), font family and font size, line numbering and others.Code4Blog is now published on CodePlex. You are welcome to work with the source code directly!

JSEnhancementsThis extension provides outlining and matching braces highlighting features for Visual Studio JavaScript and CSS editor.Works both in JS/CSS files and HTML script/style blocks.Outlining is like in C# editor. It outlines {}’s, []’s and #region tagsBrace highlighting is made from MSDN example.CodePlex page: http://jse.codeplex.com/

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010PowerCommands 10.0 is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2010 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE.
Visit the VSX Developer Center at http://msdn.com/vsx for more information about extending Visual Studio.

Regex EditorThis sample was built to ease your pain when working with regular expressions. It rehosts the editor in a dialog box and provides a basic language service to provide colorization, brace matching, sample testing grouping and selection tracking. It shows re-hosting of the editor in a tool window, and provides a nice starting point for similar projects.

VS10x Code MapVS10x Code Map is a Visual Studio 2010 extension that displays a graphical nested representation of the current editor window code (C# and VB.NET). It helps the developer visualize type nesting, implemented interfaces, regions, member type and scope, as well as quickly navigate to their respective position in the code editor.